"As per January 2009, the current stable version of GNU/Emacs is 22. However, there is a development version 23 available from CVS. The development version should become the next stable version in the not-too-distant future. I've been using emacs 23 for more than one year now, and have found it very reliable..."
Read more »Setting Up Dual-Dual NIC Bonding On Ubuntu In 30 Seconds
Well, maybe not that fast, but pretty quickly, anyway ;)
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Why everyone should be using an Open Source operating system
I have thought for some time that having games on windows was what kept me from using Linux. I've been a gamer for a good part of my life and it was one of the reasons i didn't know what to do with Linux...
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Collection of Tips and Tricks for XChat Part 1
XChat is a GTK client for IRC, available on both Linux and Windows. It is one of the most popular and feature-rich IRC clients on the Linux platform, together with Konversation and KVirc. Of course, there are very good clients like Irssi too, but I'm talking only about graphical clients here.
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Open Source Alternatives to iTunes: Your Favorite?
To be sure, the alternatives don’t have Apple's muscle with the media industry. This translates into a lack of a movie/TV download service to be seriously competitive with the likes of what iTunes can provide. Despite this drawback, there are still some great open source alternatives to iTunes for those who are more interested in software freedom than software convenience.
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Extracting Different File Types On Linux And Unix - Guest Post
A nice little function for bash to get the week kicked off right :)
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Join the Linux revolution
You have undoubtedly heard of Linux, and as a PCW reader it’s very likely you have tried it. Only a few years ago, Linux was something largely best left to the most technically minded, to those who liked to configure and tweak their operating system and liked the idea of free software.
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Remote access using NX and OpenSuse 11.1
NoMachine NX is a solution for secure remote access, desktop virtualization, and hosted desktop deployment using compression, session resilience and resource management. It integrations a powerful audio, printing and resource sharing capabilities and makes it possible to run any graphical application (e.g KDE, Gnome etc.) across the network connection.
Read more »Spinning Unix and Linux Blog Content
This summary made sense at digit saucer in time - I mean, this summary made sense at some point in time ;)
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Bash script to find all of your indexed web pages on Google
You've read the book; now see the movie! Oh wait, this is actually a script to find your Google-indexed pages ...forget about that first part ;)
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Turn Thunderbird into a Full-Blown PIM with Lightning
Continuing the recent trend of posts about email client and personal information manager (PIM) software, this post will look at the Lightning extension for Thunderbird.
Read more »How Many Different Ways Can You Stop VCS On Linux Or Unix?
All right, knock it off, VCS. ...wait, not that way!!!
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How-To: Compile and Install Code::Blocks from Source in Debian Lenny
Code::Blocks is a complete, cross-platform integrated development environment for C and C++, built using the wxWidgets toolkit. Code::Blocks is available on Linux, Windows and OS X, so you may find it useful on Linux if you switched and are already used to it or an IDE like Dev-C++, for example.
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Download Pidgin 2.5.4 for Ubuntu (deb package) - MSN fix also
Since yesterdey, MSN hasn’t been working on Pidgin anymore because of some changes made by Microsuck. [...]
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Mail Notification - Check Email in the Background
Having a notification when new email arrives can be nice and really useful if you're waiting for an important message. But if you're using a desktop email client or maybe a third party webmail service, you might not want to run a big client application or have to keep checking that tab in Firefox to see if new mail has arrived.
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